Gavan admitted six charges of possession of documents containing information likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism, under section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000. These were books entitled ‘Booby- traps’, ‘Improvised Weapons Manual’, ‘Guerilla Warfare and Special Forces Operations 1961’ and two PDF files including the Anarchists Cookbook volume four.

There are a variety of illustrative aspects to this story, not the least of which pertains to the uselessness of Britains gun ban, but the aspect  that I find interesting today is the fact that it is a crime to possess the above listed books. These books have been out there for decades and the information has been widely distributed. It's a genie that won't go back in the bottle. The point is that no security or close protection should be without the information described in these books because the techniques described are precisely the types of techniques that will be used against your principals by non-state actors (or state actors running false flag ops). In the same way a gun ban only hinders those who abide by the law, making possession of these books a crime also only hinders those who abide by the law ...